Pedestrian in critical condition after being struck Downtown

8:30 AM,
Jan. 13, 2014

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Metropolitan police say a pedestrian was critically injured after being struck Sunday night by a vehicle in the parking lot of the Downtown post office.

Police and ambulance crews were called to the 700 block of South Capitol Avenue shortly after 9:10 p.m. on reports of a person struck. Emergency responders found the man lying behind a black 2003 Chevy Impala that apparently ran over him.

The victim, identified in a police report as Cassius K. Ash, 34, Indianapolis, was taken to Eskenazi Hospital in critical condition, according to an ...